OK, FELLOW FOAMERS AND FOAMETTES. THE NUMBERS HAVE SPOKEN. I'VE COME UP WITH A FEW MORE JOINTS, ERR I MEAN ESTABLISHMENTS, SO WE'RE READY TO DO THE TALLY. (I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF DOT AND SOUTHIE PEOPLE WATCHING CAREFULLY !!!)

BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE EL ACCROSS NEARBY WASHINGTON STREET (3880 WASH @ TOLLGATE WAY, ROZZIE) AND FOLLOWING WASHINGTON STREET AND THE EL TO DOWNTOWN CROSSING (SUMMER/WINTER STREET STATIONS) = 5.216 MILES. 72 BARS IN 5.216 MILES = @ 13 BARS PER MILE ALONG THE AREA IMPACTING THE ORANGE LINE ! DOT AVE AND RED LINE PEOPLE, LET'S SEE YOU MATCH THAT !!! HAHAHA!!! (I ain't doin' it !) AND PROBABLY EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, NOW I KNOW WHY I SAW THAT DRUNK AT DOVER, AND AT GREEN, AND AT...

Thanks, TD ! That's a real complement coming from you ! It's like having Yves Saint Laurent tell you that you're a spiffy dresser ! hahaha!!! (Like your avitar also !)Oh, by the way, the big MTA bar was the Fireside in Forest Hills. A lot of stories came out of that place, none which will be discussed here, I'll tell ya ! hahaha!!!

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jonnhrr wrote:Dancing girls? Well maybe we could find the pretty young ladies that handed out cigars for the first revenue run of the 01400's in 1963. Of course they would probably be in their seventies now.

Jon

70's might just work for an old coot of 60 (today) ! hahaha!!!! It's the cigars that might be a little dry !

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You may be right, Mark. I worked the area in the early 80's and it was always known simply as Aga's. I know that they call themselves Aga's Highland Tap now, but I recall as a kid seeing what seems now to be a slightly different location than Aga's up from the El. I'm wondering if the Highland Tap may have been where that vacant lot is next door, perhaps owned by Aga ? In any event, Aga runs a good bar- one of the most controlled in the city. We never got a call for a disturbance there. I'll leave it seperate for now. It doesn't make any difference as far as the numbers being skewed. Maybe somebody else will pipe in if they want.

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My Rail, i believe from my work that it was the Highland Tap , and then Agamemnon , or Aga bought it. His brother Gigi , owned the strip joint in Stoughton , Alex's ,which is morphed from the last name. I am sure there must have been a slug of bars in that area, as it transitioned from one culture to another, and things change .

Yesireebob- we missed a lot of the corridor from Eggie to Mass Ave., I know for sure. A lot of bars heard the rumble of Main Line cars overhead. Now, those sounds are only a very distant memory for a select few. I'll make the change on the list, although the stats are the same = a lot of damn bars !!! Here's an "under the El" inside tid-bit for you; Much of the loot from the infamous Brinks robbery on Prince Street was never recovered. Participants went to the can as well as their grave without divulging where it was stashed. These were local times and local guys. They weren't "off-shore" bank account types. A persistant rumor over the years was that a lot of the Brinks proceeds was stashed somewhere in the Egleston Square vicinity. Now what better place to stash than a bar owned by a confederate ? Maybe there's a reason that that little bar has been left standing so long at Valentine/Wash ? hahaha!!! Now TD, I don't want to hear about your truck "accidentally" plowing through the wall there at 4AM !

Twenty five years ago, the MBTA relocated the Orange Line, dismantling the elevated rail that had long defined the City’s Southwest Corridor. Two years prior to the project, the private nonprofit agency URBANARTS organized, on behalf of the MBTA, a program called Arts in Transit. The project paired photographers with photography students to document the corridor in transition from Forest Hills to Dover Station. In the fall of 1985, the students and their teachers began photographing the Orange Line and its architectural and social surroundings. This exhibition features over 65 photographs from the project held by the BPL’s Print Department."

Demolition of the Elevated structure from Forest Hills to Broadway, thereby making available hundreds of thousands of tons of steel for the national war effort, was recommended by the Boston City Council at yesterday's session.

City Councilor James M. Langan of Jamaica Plain, who introduced the order, pointed out that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad runs almost parallel to the Boston Elevated structure from Forest Hills to the Back Bay Station and that the "L" could use the abandoned rails of this railroad, inasmuch as they are of the same gauge.

Pres. Thomas E. Linehan appointed a committee comprising Councilor Langan, Councilor Thomas J. Hannon of Dorchester, and Councilor William F. Hurley of Roxbury to confer with Mayor Tobin and officials of the El relative to the advisability of razing the El structure.

Did any other cities take down used and useful infrastructure such as bridges to make steel and other materials available for World War II?

(To the theater stage manager) Quit twiddling the knob and flickering the lights while the audience is entering and being seated. (To the subway motorman) Quit twiddling the knob and dinging the doors while passengers are getting off and others are waiting to board.